TEMECULA, Calif. – Welterweight Lorenz Larkin would much rather have been backstage warming up at Bellator 219 than watching others do the same. Once scheduled as the headliner for Bellator 219, Larkin (20-7 MMA, 2-2 BMMA) saw a fight with ex-champ Andrey Koreshkov (22-3 MMA, 13-3 BMMA) slip through his fingers when a back injury interrupted his training camp. The injury happened at the start of camp, so Larkin thought he could work his way through it. But when he failed to hit certain weight benchmarks, alarm bells sounded. “My wind was good and my training was good, but the consistency of the training wasn’t going how I wanted it to go,” he told MMA Junkie at this past Friday’s event.
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Lorenz Larkin explains his side of canceled Bellator 219 fight with Andrey Koreshkov – MMA Junkie